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| Report: U.N. Accuses Iran, Hizbullah of Killing Syrian Soldiers |
| 2011-08-07 |
| [An Nahar] United Nations ...Parkinson's Law on an international scale... High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) committee said that Iran and Hizbullah are involved in killing Syrian soldiers who refused to shoot at anti-regime protesters, the French radio station reported on Saturday. The committee reported that it will publish a detailed report from 20 pages during the upcoming days. The report will include images and testimonies from refugees and soldiers who defected from the army and are now present in Turkey. The Syrian government has sought to crush the democracy movement with brutal force, killing more than 1,649 civilians and arresting thousands of dissenters, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights Group. The committee said that Syrian soldiers who refused to shoot at protesters were killed after they were jugged by Hizbullah or Iranian Revolutionary Guards members, "Who are now present in Syria to help the regime repress protesters." Western Sources had previously confirmed that Iran and Syria are involved in oppressing the anti-regime protesters, the radio station said. However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... Iran and Hizbullah have continuously refused the accusations. The latest crackdown has centered on Hama. The crackdown on Hama has prompted harsh words from Washington and Moscow, with Russia hinting at a possible change of heart after stonewalling firm U.N. action against Syria, its ally since Soviet times. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Classic imperialist tactics. You shuffle your native-recruited regiments from their home province, where they know everybody & might be loathe to shoot their uncles and cousins, to some distant shithole where they don't know the locals & they all smell funny because they eat weird crap. Voila! Instant atrocity-capable storm-troopers, just add alcohol (or khat, or hashish, or whatever). |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2011-08-07 18:09 |
| #2 IIRC Iran tends to use their Palestinian Basij for that, abu. |
| Posted by: lotp 2011-08-07 16:52 |
| #1 Hmmmm. Some of the same goons who shot Iranian protestors? |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2011-08-07 16:08 |